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THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, August 30th, 1956 NOTES AND COMMENTS ~ Crisisin Teaching In spite of the reassurances of Dr. Dun- lop, Minister of Educatfon, there does exist in Ontario, as well as in the rest of Canada, a serious crisis with regard to teaching and teachers. Seventy-five years ago-when our coun- try was primarily agricultural and rural, the teacher was a respected and substan- tial figure in the local community. The people valued his opinions and services and to the degree that he along with the minister and the doctor supplied intellect- ual leadership, There was a universal respect for learning although most folk got along all right on the three R's; higher education was for the gentle folk and those entering the professions. To-day the teacher has lost much of the esteem once accorded to him. Yet his job to-day is far more important than ever before. Now reading and writing and arithmetic are only the beginnings of learning. We are an industrialized nation, highly urbanized, using freely throughout the land the great new means of communi- cation. The schools must now pass on to the next generation the multitude of skills and techniques through which an indus- trial country survives. At the same time we must guard against turning our schools into mere technical and vocational train- ing institutions. The Soviet Union has done just this. We don't want our child to become just a skilled automaton. We want him to develop an understanding of himself, of others and the world in which he lives. We want him to grow up in the spiritual heritage of mankind. We want him to accept the responsibilities of free citizenship in a creative democracy. This the schools must teach. Mostly About Milk Researchers at Cornell University are experimenting with a Dutch process which makes it possible to mix milk and fresh fruit juice without curdling the milk. In * this way children will be-able to drink their morning milk and fruit juice at the same time. The Dutch claim that fruit- milk can be pasteurized, homogenized, and kept just like the ordinary kind. --_--X-- . For generations farmers have concen- trated on breeding cows that gave milk gleaming with butter-fat; now they are (some of them) trying to reverse the pro- cess with a slight change. They want to breed cows that give milk which is low in butter-fat but high in solids--protein, essential vitamins and trace elements-- those things which make milk an outstand- ing food. - teach. sons continue drinking the milk. a "But how to teach it to the mass of pup- ils who are flocking into our schools when we haven't either the accommodation or the teachers; 'I'hat's the problem? And the most serious aspect of it is the teacher shortage. How are we going to attract the brighter young men and young women into a profession whose tasks become in- creasingly more difficult and the prestige less? The answer must come from all con- cerned with education, 'The community must learn to appraise the difficult work the teachers are trying to do; must ap- praise it in terms of a newer and deeper and wiser kind of respect. 'The commun- ity must devise ways to show its appre- ciation of both learning and those who Teachers themselves must revalue their position. Their job is not one of mere instruction and mechanical training but rather a creative task in which pupils- are encouraged and helped. to think and work and plan creatively and eo-oplratives ly. They must be made to use, their brains; they must break out of the nar- row rings of thought which they bring from the home, from their community, from television and the movies. What a challenge for the pupil! And what a challenge for the teacher! If we don't develop a new attitude to- - wards education and towards teachers, second and third-rate people will drift in- to the profession as they are already be- ginning to do, because it appears to offer .a modest security, long holidays, and little competition. It's your child who suffers in the long run. i } At the University of Minnesota experi- menters have been studying the possibil- ity of using milk as a carrier of anti-bodies which protect against infectious. human diseases. By injecting vaccines into the udder of the cow they have been able to produce anti-bodies which appear in the blood of the persons who drink the milk from cows so vaccinated. They have even tried successfully multiple vaccinations and the immunity for the people who use the milk, which lasts as long as the per- The researchers have used so far vaccines of the 'strep' infections, measles, small-pox, diphtheria, tuberculosis and others. The appearance and the flavour of the milk are unimpaired by the introduction of the vaccines. --_---- Information by courtesy of Atlantic Monthly, September, 19586. | | find that the facts are all in order. fish driver will be a social outcast-- Clipped Comments HOW ARE YOUR MOTORING MANNERS? _ "Mind your manners" -- we are taught as children, and no well-man- nered person' would dream of offend- ing the unwritten laws of our society; we. do not kick people or push them from the sidewalks, we do not throw our refuse on our neighbour's lawn. Lack of consideration and courtesy to others would brand us as ignorant and primitive, "Motor manners" are especially im- portant. Their presence makes driv- ing much safer--their abscence may threaten someone's life or limbs. More and more, people are realizing that motor manners are a vital part of our social code of behaviour and in overcomiilg the hazards of traffic. The time must come when the sel- when even friendships may be affect- ed by poor driving manners. Well- mannered people are popular. No- body wants to be unpopular. Every- body can learn to drive safely, but only after they have learned to drive courteously. The Golden Rule is as valid and workable on the streets and high- ways as it is in any other walk of life. Help make courtesy the code of the road , . . both for yourself and others. --Canadian Stdtesman; ---- READING PROJECT-- The summer months, with extra free time for the small fry, would seem and ideal occasion for parents to en- ren, . We have in mind diversions other than increased consumption of comic books or the pulp adventure maga- zines. A bit of guiding, psychology, and wise spending ¢an get this pro- ject off to a good start. The proper choice of children's books takes considerable thought. There is a wide selection on the mar- ket today. Younger children can de- rive a great deal of pleasure from having a story read to them. "Grade school youngsters can learn a great deal about the world around them. In an exciting manner, the: reading can be tied in with summer travel and vacation activities. Reading can give children a vivid picture of the world about them. There appears for them a realistic impresgion that they are living in a marvelous world of people, animals and material objects which go unno- ticed day by day. --~Stouffville Tribune. WARING RE SUBDIVISIONS-- An editerial in the Richmond Hill Liberal will be read with interest by officials in Lindsay who are being constantly confronted with the prob- lem of creating new subdivisions and all that it entailed. It reads as fol- lows: : Recently an official of the North York Township Board of Education announced that the municipality will require 24 new public schools by 1960 and 34 high 'schools by 1980, about double the number of schools now in Toronto. This combined with the fact that North York is planning to go in- to the Tri-level system of education and that a large portion of the land in the township is in the hands of speculators means that North York education tax than ever. The rapid rate at which the municipality was allowed to develop has been attributed as the principal cause of the present situation, This should be ample warning to the municipal councils and planning boards of the area north of Steeles Ave. to proceed cautiously in their development. Considerable land is being held in speculation in this area no doubt until such time as develop- ment regulations become less strin- gent. It will require careful plan- ning on the part of the municipalities in the district to prevent the same situation from arisfhg. "Any request for subdivision development should be studied carefully by both Planning Board and Council before any decision is reached. Terms of any agreement should be sufficiently stiff to insure that no development will prove a bur- den to the present property owners. Above all negotiations should not overlook the school problem." With school taxes at an all time high any new developments are bound to add to the already stressing problem of accommodation, As a last ditch stand against the rising cost of education in the fact of mass development, North York has agreed to request subdividers to pay for schools to accommodate the resi- dents of their development. Already subdividers are being requested to in- stall services in developments in many Ontario municipalities to relieve in- cumbent residents of the additional burden and it seems logical that these requirements should be extended for the same reason. Drastic situations require drastic remedies and it is only logical that the remaining County of York muni- cipalities should plan now to avoid a 1ther than in the muscles. repetition of North York's planning District Doings 'OSHAWA BIRTH RATE IS CLIMBING ed this year over 195656 at the rate of seven more new arrivals per month, a vital statistics report issuel by Dr. A. F. Mackay, Oshawa medical offi- cer of health, showed. Last year babies came into the world at the rate of 116 per month, for a 1887 total for the year. . For the first six months of 1956, 736 babies were born for a 122 mon- thly average. The June birth total was above the 1956 monthly average. 126 births were recorded in June, FARMERS NEED DRY WEATHER "What we need is some dry, bright weather to let the farmers get ahead with their harvesting," reports H. L. Fair, agricultural representative for Ontario County. "Threshing and combining of win- ter wheat has been held up by the ve- cent wet weather. Spring grain crops are generally good and progress had been made cutting and stooking prior to the recent rain. "The _corn .crop is spotty, Corn likes lots of warmth. It has been slow in growth this season because of the very cool nights, The harvesting of a splendid crop of second growth hay has also been slowed down by wet weather. "Ontario County farmers are mak- ing good progress with the prepara- tion of land for the sowing of winter wheat. Because of the Hessian fly, winter wheat is usually seeded in this area during the second & third weeks of September. There is less damage from the fly later in the season," said Mr. Fair. "The yield of the applajiop is con- siderably under last year, but the quality is high," he concluded. Of Many Things By Ambrose Hills SELF-IMPROVEMENT I picked up an old, old book the other day and found some fascinat- ing information about self-improve- ment. . The book was written almost a cen- tury ago, but'I checked up with some important present-day authorities and If you want to improve yourself, you can take courage from these findings. If, for example, you exercise your right arm in order to make it strong- er, you will discover, much to your surprise, that you have strengthened more than your right arm. Your left arm will also appear to be strong- er, even though you did not use it in the exercise. According to the old book I've been reading, there is a rea- son for this. In your exercising you strengthened your will. A good deal of your strength lies in the will, ra- Many a husky man has found this out when floored by a skinny, weak-looking op- ponent--with a strong willl Self-improvement is all-embracing. Practice charity, for example, and your faith will be strengthened, too. Practice thrift and your earning pow- er will increase. One virtue contri- butes to another; there is a progres- sion which works in your favour once you take the first step forward to- wards virtue. Paes This progession explains why' some specialists have also a remarkable | variety of additional skills. In be- coming truly great in their specialty, they have strengthened the will. A good doctor, for example, could be- come a fine mechanic quickly. So, do not be too'concerned about the position you now hold in life. Do it really well, and you strengthen yourself in countless ways, ready for fresh opportunities. A really fine store clerk increases his ability each day to become the owner and operator of the business. It must be admitted, however, that the same rules apply in reverse. Do a poor job in one line, and you deplete your ability to do any other kind of Yoh, The lazy, sloppy carpenter who dreams of becoming a great con- tractor dreams in vain, because he has climbed on the skids which are-greas- ed with his own shortcomings. Whatever this day brings you to do, do it as well as you can. Then you'll be ready to do a better, more important job tomorrow. It can't be otherwise. These are laws of nature, Work with them and you succeed. Disobey them and you fail. courage more reading by their child- taxpayers are in for an even heavier problems happening here, It is that simple, and that difficult! The Oshawa birth rate has increas- | , tendent mo I have wanted for some time to write about a very stalwart citizen in your community--your hospital ad- ministrator. First, to acquaint you with the tremendous responsibility which rests upon this one person in your midst, and, secondly, to pay tri- bute to the character and accomplish- ments of this busy individual. Administration of a hospital is not an end in itself, but only a means to the end that the hospital may give to its patients as well as to its medi- cal staff, a consistently high. quality of service. Thus the administrator must not only control management de- tail, but must also act as liaison of- ficer between the hospital board, the medical staff, and all other groups which function within the total or- ganization, This requires interpret- ing to each group the needs and prob- lems of the other, and the elimina- tion of misunderstandings which may arise between them. Policies of operation are decided by the governing board, but good hospi- tal care cannot be created by legisla- tion alone. There are two distinct parts to the dispensing of good hos- pital care. The first part depends, primarily, upon the training, experi- ence and judgement of members of the medical staff. And yet 'each physician represefts a very definite entity, with special personality char- acteristics. The wise administrator will not attempt to change this indi- vidualism, but must recognize it, ac- cept it, and find ways of working with it. Thus hospital administra- tion becomes a perpetual exercise in human relations. The second part of providing good hospital care requires that the medical staff and all departments must be supplied with the manpower, the ma- terials, and the equipment which are necessary for work to be carried out effectively. This again requires ad- ministrative and executive skill, and the co-ordination of all departments ahd services in the hospital to achieve success. ' Administration, therefore, is not a game of olifuire where the superin- 'es _chirds, pushes buttons, or juggles statistics, hoping to heat the complex game of operation. Such solitary occupation would soon be snowed under by the avalanche of re- ports, requests, requirements and re- gulations which land in unceasing flow upon the executive desk. MRS. CHARLES McLEAN | PRESIDENT, ONTARIO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION To co-ordinate all the activities and services of the hospital, to keep in constant review its equipment or ex- pansion needs, to soothe the some- times "savage breast" of employee or patient, striving always to operate with the limitations .of the hospital's precarious budget, requires the ser- vice of a person of diversified know- ledge and ability, When the attractive young lady on the popular TV "big question" show presses the button on the huge auto- matic machine for the chosen category, its mechanical brain is set in motion to produce the contestant's initial questions. There is a scurry .of acti- vity as questions are thrown out from the various compartments. nately, the big machine does not give the answers. Those remain for one worry-laden person--the contestant-- to produce. I have often thought that a hospi- tal superintendent must sometimes feel like the contestant in the ease, as questions flow from all departments of the hospital to the administrative desk. Certainly the questions, and the problems they produce, are as varied as they are complex, anil pre- sent a formidable challenge to the ad- ministrator who must come up with the right answers. i Who, for instanc e, must be "on call" twenty-four hours every day for em- ergency consultation who must ar- range for an extra bed when all re- gular beds are filled; who 'must con- fer with the Director of nursing and have intimate knowledge of the service she directs; who must keep an eye on the cost of food and coal which | the dietitian or engineer requires; who must know the best--and sometimes the quickest--source for medical sup- plies and equipment; who must plan Unfortu- | for major hospital maintenance, such as painting or renewing furnishings | and fit these needs into the roitthe activities of service with a minimum of interruption; who must be able not | only to understand the hospital's fi-| nancial statement, but know the many factors that combine to produce it? Who, indeed, but the administrator! Thus an administrator must, among upon the hospital; must be an expert in solving the problems of human re- lations, both within and outside the hospital, and yet preserve the dignity and authority of executive manage- ment. Adding fire or spice to the admini- strator's task are safety campaigns, building projects, community endea- vours, educational programmes for student nurses, and medical education programmes for interns and residents. Co-operation with various levels of government and with social agencies in the community all have a claim on the administrator's knowledge and time, Despite all the varying de- mands, the administrative eye must always keep focused on the patient, who represents the hub of this re- volving wheel of hospital service. All these requirements add up to a very special individual--one who must be honest, loyal, patient, possessed with enthusiasm and a sense of hum- or, and, as Ray E. Brown, President of the American Hospital Association, puts it, must "love his fellow man if he is going to be allowed to run loose in society and not be avoided by his secretary". - I ean assure you that few people "avoid" the hospital administrator. On the contrary, everyoné from board member to orderly, from physitian to file clerk seek knowledge and strength and help in solving the problems that beset them. The adminstrator of your hospital is a very solid citizen, and worthy of your warm regard and support, WHO'S HERB GOTT? Herh hasn't got anybody here, but other things, serve as purchasing a-!in case you were wondering just who rent, lawyer, confidential clerk, ac- countant, messenger boy, 'public re- lations officer, and diploniat; must know regulations and be able to find sonalities authority or official guidance for any course of action proposed or thrust; 15 Herb Gott, then the above picture should settle that for you. he heard imterviewing interesting per- on hig Saturday radio feat- ure, "Who's Herb Gott?" on the Trans-Canada network of the CBC. --E Herb can OF tIvisi10CK COLI --SEFT. 5TH COLDSTREAM GUARDS BAND bow Famous British band daily on the Bard Shell bal CANADIAN NUE DOLLAR PARADE SHELL JOWiR INTERNATIONAL } Pxscans Wonderful displays from the United King- dum Australiy, India, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, He land, al « Japan, Poland, Spain, " Pas? ie ar $n, P United Stated RL - ervation tower CANADA'S SPORTS HALL OF FAME WEST OF AUTOMOTIVE BUILD.NG NATIONAL EXHIBITION A te aay ; ors pid Mew features... new exhibits. / / ' INTERNATIONAL PETA Rl whole family Q oy 1956 CN / AIR § ( Breathtsking HOW, i s, { \ the world's mo st modern \ ancraft. Sept. 7th & 8th \ CN Ex watertront international exhibits from around the WHALE Dipped Extvibtion-iper than aver thi year." new wonders for the . at the world's largest, the fabulous For the first time the International Air Show with breathtaking aerobatics. See ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTIES WA . RCMP "Musical Ride" n. wotld the newestin science, industry will thei thousands ever A afternoon and evening 8 SEW 6 and the arts... agriculture... sports for thebigGrandstand Shows. > Ii ' : ' every fan. Plan now for a visit you'll never J 8 y forget gh li IRA stam Mi Wind WILLIAM A HARRIS, President '(! Hi HIRAM £ MCCALLUM, General Manager OPPOSITE GRANDSTAND ) ANNIE OAKLEY a \ } + . S ny rrAfternoon Grandstand 'pg << n/ )/* ~ Circus, Aug 27th to Sept !. GORGEOUS AN fA 81h. 200 pm FASHIONS vl Sm { Anew lashionshowevery y/ hour, ¢ \ WOMEN'S BUILDING- \ COLISEUM DAIRY QUEEN WEST ANNEX Hn See the Dairy Queen compe titias a Lhe Coliseum: Aug 24 to Sept. 5th 6-7 p.m, GENE AUTRY AND